Research progress on adsorption and separation of carbonyl sulfide in blast furnace gas

The iron and steel industry is one of the foundational industries in China. However, with the introduction of energy-saving and emission reduction policies, desulfurization of blast furnace gas (BFG) is also necessary for further sulfur control in the iron and steel industry. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) has become a significant and difficult issue in the BFG treatment due to its unique physical and chemical properties. The sources of COS in BFG are reviewed, and the commonly used removal methods for COS are summarized, including the types of adsorbents commonly used in adsorption methods and the adsorption mechanism of COS. The adsorption method is simple in operation, economical, and rich in types of adsorbents and has become a major focus of current research. At the same time, commonly used adsorbent materials such as activated carbon, molecular sieves, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), and layered hydroxide adsorbents (LDHs) are introduced. The three mechanisms of adsorption including π-complexation, acid–base interaction, and metal–sulfur interaction provide useful information for the subsequent development of BFG desulfurization technology.


BFG desulfurization application and research trends
The main sulfur-containing compound in BFG is organic sulfur, accounting for more than 80% of the sulfur-containing components. [7][8][9] The main components are carbonyl sulde (COS), carbon disulde (CS 2 ), thiophene sulfur, etc. Some of the physicochemical properties of COS are shown in Table 1, and Fig. 1 is the schematic of the molecular structure of COS. COS is weak in acidity, small in polarity, and difficult to be separated. Limited by technical conditions and economic costs, COS has become a difficult point in BFG desulfurization.
Presently, the technical routes of removing COS can be divided into two categories: one is the wet method and the other is the dry method. The wet method is relatively mature in industrial applications. Generally, liquids such as aqueous solutions or lye solutions (MDEA method, MSQ method, etc.) are used to absorb sulfur-containing gases. 10,11 COS is converted into elemental sulfur for recycling. However, there are problems such as easy corrosion of equipment, difficult waste liquid treatment, and high operating costs in the wet method. Typical dry methods include hydrogenation reduction method, hydrolysis method, and adsorption method, 12,13 which have the advantages of strong applicability, no corrosion, and simple operation but high technical requirements for operation, which Di Wei: (1998), born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is a third-year graduate student of Wuhan University of Science and Technology and is mainly engaged in studies involving the removal of carbonyl sulfur from blast furnace gas and the preparation and modication of related adsorbents.
Jia Yang: (1997), born in Hanchuan City, Hubei Province, the second-year postgraduate of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, mainly engaged in the removal of carbonyl sulfur from blast furnace gas and the preparation and modication of related adsorbents.
Yue Chen: (1998), born in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, the second-year postgraduate of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, mainly engaged in the removal of carbonyl sulfur from blast furnace gas and the preparation and modication of related adsorbents.
LvYou Wu: (2000), born in Liling, Hunan Province, the second-year postgraduate of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, mainly engaged in the removal of carbonyl sulfur from blast furnace gas and the preparation and modication of related adsorbents.
limits the widespread promotion in the market. With the development of adsorption method, researchers have found that trace amounts of sulfur can deactivate the adsorbent and affect the desulfurization performance. 12,[14][15][16] Experimental results had proved that 4.00 mg of sulfur could reduce the activity of 1.00 g adsorbent Fe-Cu-K by about half. 5,6,17,18 The crucial parameters for the adsorbent are selectivity, sulfur capacity, desulfurization strength, and stability, and further depth research on the performance indicators of comprehensive consumption should be carried out.

Absorption method
Absorption methods are commonly used in industries for largescale industrial gas separation such as the separation of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and hydrogen sulde (H 2 S). 19 It is also adequate to organic sulfur removal, and chemical absorption is more effective than physical absorption. Organic amine solutions such as monoethanolamide (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA), diethylene glycol amine (DGA), diisopropanolamine (DIPA), and methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) are usually selected as COS absorbents. Table 2 shows the kinetic study of COS reaction system with common absorbent solution. They can react with COS to generate corresponding thiamine salts for separation purposes, such as the alkyl alcohol amine method. 20 A zwitterion mechanism could be used to describe the reaction of COS with primary amines (denoted here as AmH), which was similar to the absorption of carbon dioxide: 21 Rivera-Tinoco et al. 25 studied the absorption of COS by dissolving DEA in methanol and modeled the process by a two-step method based on the zwitterion mechanism. However, in the process of alkanolamine desulfurization, part of the solvent will evaporate, the cost of the method is high, and by-products are easily produced, which will have impact on the environment. 26,27 Second, the absorption method cannot reduce total sulfur (mass fraction) to less than 10 −6 and is not suitable for the ne removal of COS. Therefore, it is necessary to develop catalysts with stable desulfurization performance to reduce process pollution and equipment loss, and improve the precision of COS drop rate.

Hydrolysis method
The hydrolysis method was originally used to remove H 2 S in the Claus process tail gas, 28 and later it was gradually applied in the elds of industrial gas desulfurization and industrial tail gas treatment. The process mechanism is that COS reacts with H 2 O to generate H 2 S and CO 2 : The applicable temperature of the reaction is from 30 to 250°C, and low temperature appears better for the reaction. Most of the hydrolysis catalysts play their role depending deeply on supports. The two common supports are metal oxides, such as g-Al 2 O 3 , and non-metallic oxidants, such as activated carbon. 29,30 Wang et al. 31 explored the separation reaction of COS on Al 2 O 3 , and found that COS would preferentially undergo hydrolysis with water vapor and then undergo an oxidation reaction on an Al 2 O 3 support. David et al. 32 explored the reaction of COS and hydrogen cyanide (HCN) on titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) and found that there is a certain degree of competitive adsorption between the reaction sites of the two components. On this basis, by adjusting the pore size of the catalyst, it was   Table 3 shows the hydrolysis of COS on different adsorbents. At present, it is generally believed that the hydrolysis reaction of COS is related to the basic sites on the surface of the catalyst, and hence, the hydrolysis capacity of the catalyst is oen improved by increasing the alkalinity of the catalyst, such as increasing the number of nitrogen-containing bases and OH. Fig. 2(a) shows the various types of nitrogen functions observed in NPC materials. 37 The most common types are pyridine nitrogen, pyrrolic nitrogen, and graphitic nitrogen. Other functions include amine, cyano, lactam, triazine, pyridine oxide, and metal coordination nitrogen. Sun et al. 41 studied the reaction process diagram of COS and CS 2 on Cu, as shown in Fig. 2

(b) and (c).
Aer the hydrolysis catalyst reacts, a large amount of sulfur or sulfate will be deposited on the surface of the catalyst, blocking part of the pore size, reducing the specic surface area of the catalyst, and causing the catalyst to be poisoned and deactivated, and the desulfurization conversion rate will decrease. In addition, the reaction process is long, and it is easy to corrode the equipment, which will reduce the quality of the gas. The water vapor and CO 2 generated by the reaction will undergo competitive adsorption with COS, increasing the difficulty of separation, so it is gradually replaced by other means. 43

Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is a method in which COS generates other substances via a thermal decomposition reaction. The reaction mechanism proposed by Partington et al. 44 is now widely accepted. Under anaerobic or anoxic conditions, pyrolysis gases such as CO, H 2 and CH 4 are used to reduce sulfur-containing substances to produce simple sulfur through high temperature. 45 In the presence of only carbonyl sulfur (COS), the thermal decomposition reaction is as follows: 46 COS / CO + S (CO reaction) The study shows that the former is under the condition of hot metal platinum, and the latter is catalyzed by silica, in which the reaction of formula (5) is faster than that of formula (4), but the two reaction temperature windows are smaller, and the reverse reaction is very important for desulfurization. The impact of separation is not clear. 46 Moreover, the utilization of pyrolysis method is limited because of low efficiency and high energy consumption. 44

Hydrogenation reduction method
The hydrogenation reduction method refers to the method in which COS is converted into H 2 S via a hydrogenation reaction and then is removed. The main reaction is shown in formula (6) as follows: 17 The reaction temperature is medium and high. Commonly used hydrogenation catalysts are binary or multi-element metals such as Co-Mo, Ni-Mo, Ni-W, and Fe-Mn. The main active components are transition metal elements, which are characterized by unlled d-electron orbitals or hexagonal lattices, and there is a synergistic effect between the two metal elements to promote the hydrogenation reduction reaction. Wang et al. 47 explored the hydro removal effect of Fe-Mn catalysts on COS, pointing out that COS is rst converted into H 2 S in a reducing atmosphere, and the metal components on the catalyst promote its conversion into metal suldes and water. Industrial catalysts are mostly prepared by impregnating metal components directly into a g-Al 2 O 3 support. Kamp E. et al. 48 selected Pd/Al 2 O 3 to completely convert COS into H 2 S at 200°C, and the results showed that COS dissociated at the Pd site to form CO and S adsorbents, and COS would also adsorb onto the alumina support, thereby forming HSCO 2− . Subsequently, HSCO 2− reacts with hydroxide surface groups to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulde. In addition, molecular sieves with uniform and tunable mesopores and stable structures are also used as supports for hydrogenation catalysis. It has been studied that Ni-Mo and Co-Mo are supported on the surface of niobium-modied MCM-41, and dibenzothiophene can be separated by hydrogenation. 46 The hydrogenation reaction can easily separate simple organic sulfur-containing compounds such as thiophene and its derivatives, heterocyclic sulfur compounds, 49 but for the less polar COS, the reaction generates a new pollutant, H 2 S, 50 which leads to equipment corrosion, 51,52 increasing the running cost. At the same time, the hydrogenation method requires high reaction temperatures (temperature $ 400°C, pressure $ 10 MPa), the use of hydrogen and precious metals, etc., which require high equipment and control processes. Therefore, this method aims to achieve high removal rates under medium-and low-temperature conditions with low-cost catalysts.

Adsorption method
The adsorption method can separate one or several components simultaneously in gas using porous materials. Adsorption materials are metal oxides, activated carbon, molecular sieves, metal-organic framework (MOFs), layered double hydroxides (LDHs), etc., 12,53-56 which are characterized by stable and uniform framework structures and can be functionally selected according to separation requirements. Researchers oen achieve geometric shape selection through the control of the microscopic morphology of materials. At the same time, metals and/or functional groups are used to modify the adsorption active site, change the electronic spatial structure of the microregion, and improve the adsorption selectivity via energy matching to meet the thermodynamic (BET three-constant adsorption isotherm) and kinetic requirements of the adsorption process. Zhao et al. 57 prepared a series of nickel-containing hydrotalcite-derived oxides (HTOs) for the removal of COS by coprecipitation and found that Ni 3 Al-HTO had the best adsorption effect on COS. The study carried out ion exchange modication on NaX molecular sieves, and through DFT studies, it was concluded that COS achieved separation by forming S-M bonds with metal ions. 55 The adsorption method has been favored by researchers due to its advantages of "plug and play" exibility, easy operation and control. 55,58-61 Therefore, the research progress and reaction mechanism of COS adsorbents are systematically described below.
2 Carbonyl sulfide adsorption and separation materials

Metal oxide adsorbents
Metal oxide adsorbents are mainly divided into iron-based, zinc-based, and aluminum-based oxide adsorbents. Due to the special physical and chemical properties of COS, COS is oen converted into relatively unstable H 2 S for subsequent removal. Table 4 shows the different metal oxides.
However, the desulfurization effect of single metal oxide adsorbents is not ideal, and hence, the desulfurization performance is oen improved by adding unsaturated metal active sites via compounding metals. Jae et al. 71 added rare earth metal Ce on the MgO support, which increased the sulfur adsorption capacity of the adsorbent by about 50 mg g −1 on the original basis. Yang et al. 29 investigated the desulfurization performance of SnO 2 doped with rare earth metal La. By comparing the saturated adsorption capacity of different La contents, it was found that with the increase in La loading, the pore size of the adsorbent became larger and the total pore volume increased. When the La content reaches 40%, the adsorbent can provide more catalytically active sites for contacting with COS, thereby improving the conversion rate of COS. Further research found that metal oxides such as iron-based and zinc-based cannot satisfy both high sulfur capacity and hydrothermal stability. 72,73 In contrast, Al 2 O 3 has good hydrothermal stability, and its excellent specic surface area can make active sites disperse uniformly, form a center-radical pore structure, reduce the diffusion resistance of the reaction, and improve the adsorption performance. As shown in Fig. 3, Rupp et al. 8 improved the interaction between the catalyst and COS by supporting metal Pd on the g-Al 2 O 3 support. In order to improve the hydrolysis ability of COS at low temperatures, by loading transition metals (3 wt% Na, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) on g-Al 2 O 3 , 74 it was found that the hydrolysis performance of the catalyst except for metallic Na doping was improved, indicating that metal modication could improve the initial and nal activities of the hydrolysis reaction.
Both the hydrolysis and hydrogenation reduction reactions involving metal oxides produce H 2 S. With the progress of the reaction, the gas diffusion resistance to the solid surface increases, which increases the difficulty of desulfurization and reduces the desulfurization performance. Therefore, ensuring the activity of metal oxides, reducing the occurrence of side reactions, and improving the accessibility of reactions are the focus of later research.

Activated carbon
Activated carbon is an important adsorption material with abundant microporous structures 75 and many functional   groups on the surface. Its adsorption capacity can be increased via heat treatment modication, alkali treatment modication, and metal loading modication, 33 as shown in Fig. 4. The activated carbon was modied with potassium salts, and the analysis found that potassium ions can be uniformly distributed on the activated carbon, which can improve the saturated sulfur capacity of the adsorbent. 75 The Cu-Co-KW obtained by modifying the KOH-impregnated activated carbon with copper nitrate and sulfonated titanium cyan cobalt (CoPcs) has a saturated sulfur capacity as high as 43.30 mg COS per g. The improvement of adsorption performance is attributed to the combined effect of chemical adsorption and catalytic oxidation, among which chemical adsorption is the main one; in the reaction, an appropriate amount of water hydrolyzes part of COS, impregnation with KOH increases the basic functional groups on the surface of activated carbon, and the doped metal ions can accelerate the catalytic oxidation reaction with COS. 76,77 Melanie et al. 78 used activated carbon to adsorb COS and found that adding an appropriate amount of ammonia to the reaction mixture had a positive effect on the adsorption effect. However, activated carbon is mainly composed of micropores (about 95% or more), which play the role of selective adsorption, and its structure is easily collapsable and regeneration is difficult. In the process of industrial application, special attention should be paid to the activation temperature to avoid the effect of activated carbon aching on the desulfurization performance.

Molecular sieves
A molecular sieve is a general term for a class of crystalline aluminosilicate porous materials with a uniform pore size distribution and selective adsorption effect. Compared with the microporous structural characteristics of activated carbon, different pore sizes and cavities can be formed by connecting oxygen bridges to selectively prepare molecular sieves. [79][80][81] Some studies have pointed out that the micropores in the molecular sieve provide the active sites for adsorption, and the mesopores increase the diffusion rate of the reaction. 82 In addition to preparing molecular sieves with different pore sizes, the adsorption effect of molecular sieves can also be improved by surface modication. The cations on the molecular sieve framework can be replaced with other metal ions, to adjust the pore size, surface activity and other properties of the molecular sieve, and further improve the adsorption capacity and selectivity of the molecular sieve. The ion exchange adsorption of thiophene was carried out with metal Cu and Y molecular sieves. It was found that the adsorption capacity of the adsorbent was the best by self-reduction of Cu(II)-Y to Cu(I)-Y. The adsorption form on the adsorbent was assumed, and it was concluded that the adsorption of thiophene was achieved by reacting with proton sites formed by reducing copper on Cu(I)-Y. 83 At 40°C, the breakthrough adsorption capacity of Ag/NaZSM-5 adsorbent for COS can reach 12.86 mg COS per g, and it shows good regeneration performance when dry air is used as the regeneration purge gas. The adsorption capacity is basically unchanged. 84 Ryzhikov et al. 85 selected different metal ions to modify the molecular sieve and found that the adsorption capacity of COS was in the following order: CaX z BaX > NaX > CsNaX > NiNaX > NaY > CsY z NiY. As shown in Table 5, the molecular sieves currently available for desulfurization mainly include: LTA-type molecular sieve, MFI-type molecular sieve and FAU-type molecular sieve.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
MOFs are metal-organic framework materials composed of transition metal and organic ligand units self-assembled through coordination bonds. MOF materials have the same controllability of morphology, structure, and crystal size as molecular sieves, and the specic surface area of MOF materials is much larger than that of molecular sieves. [86][87][88][89] They have become a popular adsorbent material in recent years. Britt et al. 86 used a one-pot method to prepare metal-organic frameworks with different organic ligands, but some metalorganic frameworks have low hydrothermal stability and will compete with water during the adsorption process, resulting in the collapse of the adsorbent structure. The saturated adsorption capacity will decrease. Guo et al. 56 synthesized MIL-53(Fe) by hydrothermal synthesis to hydrolyse COS and CS 2 , and found that the separation rate of COS was as high as 92.64%, and the 100% separation rate of CS 2 could be maintained for about 30 min. By comparing the adsorption of SO 2 on MOF-74 under different reaction conditions, it was found that the Type A molecular sieve ZSM-5 molecular sieve X-and Y-type molecular sieves Schematic adsorption rate could reach 100% under dry conditions, but under wet conditions, the adsorption effect was reduced due to the competitive adsorption of water. 90 However, due to the weak polarity of COS, it is still difficult to apply MOFs for separation, which is also the focus of further in-depth research.

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs)
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs), also known as hydrotalcite (HT) and hydrotalcite-like compounds (HTLCs), are a family of stacked compounds typically made of non-covalent inter layer anions and layer cations. Bond formation, the particle size and distribution of LDHs can be controlled by selectively regulating the types of anions and cations. 16 The layered double metal hydroxide is weakly basic, but the double metal composite oxide (LDO) formed aer calcination shows strong basicity and high specic surface area, 91 and has abundant pore size and excellent catalytic performance and is widely used. The adsorption of COS on LDHs-derivative Ni/Mg/Al mixed oxide was 2.47 wt%, and the adsorption rate was almost unchanged aer regeneration. 53 The MA-LDHs-3 (Mg/Al = 3) adsorbent prepared by mechanical mixing has a large specic surface area and abundant OH-active sites. At the reaction temperature of 70°C, the removal rate of COS reaches 100%, but the adsorbent will lose interlayer water at high temperatures, resulting in dehydration of hydroxyl groups on the laminate, resulting in skeleton collapse. 58 Zhao et al. 92 modied the hydrotalcite-derived oxide (HTO) with KOH, which not only increased the basicity of the adsorbent surface but also improved the Lewis basicity of Ni, making the adsorption and removal of COS the best. Although hydrotalcite is rich in basic sites, its specic surface area is small compared to other materials, and it is susceptible to structural collapse due to temperature effects, so the use of LDHs for desulfurization is not widely used.

Mechanisms of carbonyl sulfide (COS) separation by adsorption
COS adsorption is the process of being captured and enriched in the surface of the adsorbent, and there are physical and chemical processes, as well as the synergistic effect of the two processes. According to different adsorbents and adsorption reaction conditions, there are different COS adsorption reaction mechanisms.

Physical adsorption
Physical adsorption is based on intermolecular forces (such as dispersion force, van der Waals force, and hydrogen bonding) to adsorb an adsorbate in the pores or surfaces of materials. Physical adsorption has almost no selectivity, and the adsorption is reversible. COS mainly occurs inside the micropores of the adsorbent, which requires the adsorbent to have a high adsorption capacity and strong selectivity. The Langmuir model is a classic model of physical adsorption that assumes that only a monolayer is formed on the molecular surface, as shown in Fig. 5(a). During the adsorption process, the gas molecules are in an equilibrium state of adsorption and desorption. But in the actual adsorption process, the surface of the adsorbent is not smooth and there is a complex pore structure. Based on the BET theory, it is believed that the physical adsorption of solid to gas is the result of van der Waals gravity, and there is also van der Waals force between molecules, so the adsorbent molecule may be adsorbed when it bumps into the adsorbed molecule, that is to say, the adsorption can form multi-molecular layers, and then multilayer adsorption and accumulation will be carried out on the adsorbent, as shown in Fig. 5(b). In addition, the physical adsorption process is also controlled by the molecular sieve shape-selective adsorption mechanism. As the molecular sieve has a highly regular pore structure and a specic pore size, it has high selectivity for the size of the adsorbate molecules, but only substances whose molecular dynamics diameter is smaller than its pore size have adsorption capacity. For example, ZSM-5 molecular sieve, although its average pore size is about 0.55 nm, belongs to microporous zeolite, and hence, it can enter and interact with molecular sieves for COS molecules with a kinetic diameter of 0.53 nm. Based on the calculation of the electricity price rule, taking the fukalite molecular sieve as an example, the aluminum-oxygen octahedron AlO 2 (OH) 4 and the siliconoxygen tetrahedral structure in the framework make the molecular sieve structure layer display electroneutrality, and the  aluminum-oxygen octahedron in the aluminum-oxygen octahedron is electrically neutral. About 60% of the Al-O bonds and Si-O bonds in the silicon-oxygen tetrahedron are ionic bonds and covalent bonds, respectively. Theoretically, the interlayer force of molecular sieves is the combination of hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces between hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Therefore, the adsorption form of COS molecules into the molecular sieve adsorbent is shown in Fig. 6.

Chemisorption
Complexation, acid-base interaction, and S-M adsorption mechanisms can be divided according to the difference in active centers of COS action. Chemisorption is based on the principle of coordination chemistry, changing the surface acidity and alkalinity of the adsorbent and the distribution of active sites to improve the desulfurization performance.
3.2.1 p-Complexation. Complexation is the formation of complex bonds between the adsorbate and the adsorbent to achieve adsorption and separation. In theory, all transition metal elements in the periodic table, that is, elements in the d block, can produce complex adsorption. When the transition metal atom has a ligand with greater electronegativity (such as F and Cl), due to the large shi of the electron cloud to the ligand, the metal will be partially positively charged, resulting in the outermost layer of the metal. When such metals come into contact with adsorbate molecules (e.g. CO and unsaturated hydrocarbons) with p electrons, they are easily receptive to the p electrons provided by the adsorbate to form s bonds. At the same time, the metal feeds back the excess d electrons of the outer layer to the high-energy antibonding p* orbital of the adsorbed mass space, forming feedback p bonds. The synergistic effect of s-p bonds enhances the bonding between metals and adsorbate molecules, and p-complex adsorption occurs. 93 Palomino et al. 94 used the gas-phase ion exchange (VPIE) method to modify Y molecular sieves, and the resulting Cu(I)-Y(VPIE) molecular sieves had the best terthiophene effect. The metal ion distribution of FAU-type molecular sieves is shown in Fig. 7. Due to the existence of coulombic repulsion, the occupancy of adjacent positions (such as SII and SII*) is rarely studied. It is assumed that the Cu(I)-Y(VPIE) zeolite has a Maxwell cation site distribution, 95 so that Cu + exposed at the SII and SIII sites is occupied by thiophene molecules, and the remaining Cu + interacts with other molecules capable of -complexation (aromatic compounds and/or nitrogen heterocycles) for separation purposes. 96 By analyzing the adsorption effect of Cu-Y on thiophene, it is concluded that some electrons on the p orbital of thiophene are   donated to the empty s orbital of the metal (called an electron donor), and at the same time, the electrons on the d orbital of the metal donate electrons to the p* orbital of thiophene (called a p-donor). Molecular orbital theory further conrms the experimental results. 83 In the case of complexation, the metal ions responsible for the adsorption process provide the transfer of electrons from the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). Li et al. 97 discovered that modifying activated carbon with metals such as Cu and Ag increased the amount of COS adsorbed by Cu(I). According to the research, the bond length of Cu(I)-S is shorter than that of Ag(I)-S, indicating that Cu(I)-S has a shorter bond length than that of Ag(I)-S. This is the reason that the -complex bond formed with COS is more stable. 3.2.2 Acid-base interaction. The acid-base interaction is achieved by combining the Lewis base sites on the adsorbent surface with the acidic sulfur atoms of organic suldes to achieve separation. Therefore, in order to increase the Lewis base sites on the surface of the adsorbent, metal salts are commonly used to modify the adsorbent, which are Fe, Cr, Al, etc. Song et al. 98 combined DRTFIR analysis and found that the more the decrease in C-OH, the more S-O was generated during the catalytic process, so the C-OH group was conducive to the formation of S-O groups, among which -CH, -C-OH, and groups such as -C-OH and -COO play a huge role.
-COO + H 2 S / -CH + S-O (8) COS removal process: Peyghan et al. 99 established the existence of Ag on SiCNT via DFT calculations. The analysis showed that the E ad of the combined form in Fig. 8 is the largest (12.20 kcal mol −1 ). The study found that the hybridization of Ag atoms is close to sp 3 , which can provide more electron sites to COS, namely "Lewis's base" to improve the desulfurization performance.
As shown in Fig. 9, Mi et al. 58 used MgAl layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets synthesized by a solid mechanochemical method to separate COS. The study pointed out that in the presence of water vapor, COS can pass through ionic dipoles. The sub interaction is adsorbed on the hydroxyl group to form a COS-OH intermediate, which is then reacted with H 2 O to generate H 2 S and CO 2 for the purpose of separation.
The KOH modied walnut shell biochar catalyst was used to remove COS, and the surface properties of the catalyst were analyzed by the CO 2 -TPD method. 100 COS and CO 2 have similar molecular orbitals and are both Lewis acids, so the adsorption mechanism is similar. As shown in Fig. 10, Zhai et al. 101 compared the adsorption capacity of the number of triaromatic amine groups on CO 2 and found that the adsorption capacity of CO 2 increased with the increase of the number of triaromatic amine groups, and analyzed that the high adsorption capacity of nitrogenous COFs was due to the existence of nitrogen Lewis bases in the nitrogenous COFs bond and the small pore size. As shown in Fig. 11, Kim et al. 75 loaded K onto AC by the impregnation method, and the maximum adsorption capacity was increased to 55.20 mg COS per g. -OH increases the surface alkalinity of the adsorbent and promotes the oxidation of COS, and K + reacts with -COO to form K 2 CO 3 and COS. At the same time, based on the theory of so and hard acid-base (HSAB), K + so base will more easily combine with S in COS to form K 2 SCO 2 , to achieve the purpose of separation.
3.2.3 Sulfur-metal (S-M) direct interaction. The lone pair electrons of the sulfur atom in the organosulfur compound are donated to the metal atom in the adsorbent to directly form the sulfur-metal s bond. [102][103][104] At present, the most studied modi-cation method is to add metal oxides to the original adsorbent. Not only can this method increase the content of adsorbed oxygen on the surface of the adsorbent, but introduced metal ions will also form S-M interactions with COS, thereby achieving the purpose of desulfurization. 71,105 The researchers loaded the transition metal onto the Y-type molecular sieve and evaluated its desulfurization performance. The molecular sieve modied with metal Ce was found to have an adsorption capacity of 10 mg g −1 . Because Ce ions are f-block elements with high positive charges, the S-M interaction is greater than the formation of -complexes. 106 As shown in Fig. 12, Jiang et al. 107 studied the adsorption behavior of COS on the surface of a molecular sieve adsorbent by in situ infrared, and found that its adsorption mechanism on the adsorbent surface is mainly divided into two categories. The main adsorption sites in Fig. 12(a) are surface bridge hydroxyl groups (Si-OH-Al) and silyl hydroxyl groups (Si-OH); Fig. 12(b) removes COS on the adsorbent based on the M-S interaction of metal cations with S.
The adsorption process of COS was simulated as shown in Fig. 13. Zhou et al. 108 compared the XRD patterns of NiO/ZnO-Al 2 O 3 adsorbents before and aer the reaction and found that Fig. 11 Diagram of the adsorption mechanism of COS on the surface of AC-K adsorbents.
the adsorbent aer adsorption showed the characteristic diffraction peaks of ZnS, and the specic surface area and pore volume were signicantly reduced, which proved that COS was removed as the form of ZnS, which blocked part of the pore. NiO on the adsorbent surface was reduced to Ni atoms, which combined with S to form an intermediate transition state (Fig. 13(b)). Because the C]S bond is easily broken to form various forms of nickel sulde, which then reacts with the ZnO carrier to form ZnS, achieving the goal of separation and regeneration via high-temperature calcination.
In the case of HKUST-1, the copper atom in the frame is coordinated by the tricarboxylate (BTC) linker and four oxygen of the water molecule to form a face-centered cubic crystal, which contains large square pores (9.9 A), and then a frame of empty Cu 2+ species is formed via a dehydration process. The coordination unsaturated Cu 2+ cations constitute a surface ion pair, which plays a role in the adsorption process. 109 Song et al. 98 supported Fe species on the modied walnut shell biochar catalyst (abbreviation: KOH/WSB) and found that the mediumstrength Fe-S binding energy (−4.5 eV) had the best performance. The iron ion shell was an unlled structure, which gives it more nuclear charge, and this structure facilitates the formation of coordination compounds during the reaction. Coordination compounds, as intermediate products, can provide coordination catalysis and the corresponding surface reactions, thereby promoting catalytic reactions.

Conclusion and outlook
Under the background of "ultra-low emissions" in the iron and steel industry, the implementation of BFG's sulde control can greatly reduce the overall SO 2 emissions. Therefore, BFG desulfurization is imperative. The adsorption method to remove carbonyl sulde has the advantages of convenient operation, no by-products, rich adsorbent, etc., and its adsorption mechanism is divided into two types: physical adsorption and chemical adsorption. The former is the use of intermolecular forces to achieve the removal effect, such as the selective catalytic effect of molecular sieves. The latter chemical adsorption is based on the formation of a new bond between the active site on the adsorbent and the carbonyl sulde, and the old fracture completes the adsorption, such as p complexation, S-M, and s bonding. In the adsorption process, the solitary pair electrons of sulfur atoms in organic sulfur and the adsorbent containing p electrons combine with the metal atoms in the adsorbent to form sulfurmetal s bonds and p-s bonds, so that simple substances S and sulfates are formed on the surface of the adsorbent to achieve the purpose of removal. The core technical difficulty of BFG desulfurization is that the sulfur capacity and selectivity of the adsorbent cannot meet the requirements of industrial applications under complex working conditions. Therefore, industrial adsorbents of BFG desulfurization that can effectively remove a variety of suldes and have economic competitiveness under the practical working conditions have become the research hotspot. This paper introduces the industrial application of BFG desulfurization and the research progress of COS. Combined with the core requirements of BFG desulfurization, this paper points out the research direction of COS adsorption materials and adsorption separation process in the future.

Conflicts of interest
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